The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . The Queens Seedsmen, and by Special Warrant the Prince of Wales, READING, THE SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1881. THE TULIP.* /ESNER, of Zurich, born in 1516, was not^^J only the first to make known the splen-dours of the Ttilip, but he was also the firstupon record who forined a museum of naturalhistory, and the first botanist who distinguishedthe generic characters of plants, and thus pre-pared the way for grouping species in accord-ance with their more striking affinities. Gesnerrecords that
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . The Queens Seedsmen, and by Special Warrant the Prince of Wales, READING, THE SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1881. THE TULIP.* /ESNER, of Zurich, born in 1516, was not^^J only the first to make known the splen-dours of the Ttilip, but he was also the firstupon record who forined a museum of naturalhistory, and the first botanist who distinguishedthe generic characters of plants, and thus pre-pared the way for grouping species in accord-ance with their more striking affinities. Gesnerrecords that he first saw the Tulip in the begin-ning of April, 1559, at Augsburg, in the gardenof Councillor John Henry Herwart. In 1611they first appeared in Provence, in France, inthe garden of the celebrated Feiresc. TheDutch obtained their first supply fiom Con-stantinople. The first that were planted inEngland came, according to Hakluyt, fromVienna, having been obtained thence by Caro-lus Clusius. In some of the books Clusius is putbefore Gesner as the discoverer of the Tulip,but Beckmann very properly describes Clusiusas having only collected and described the thenknown species. Ges
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